Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-03-19
Direful Prophesies.
REVOLUTIONS, WARS, EARTHQUAKES IN
THE NEXT Is YEARs-THEN THE
MILLENNIUM.

MILLENNIUM.
The Rev. Mr.. Baxter, editor of
the New York Christian Herald,
preached three times yesterday at
Harris's Museum on the Coming
of Christ and the Beginning of the
Millennium" Large audiences were
present. Mr.. Baxter has been speak
ing on the same subject throughout
the country. He is about 60 years
old, rather tall, and has bushy dark
hair and beard Many of his hear
ers, particularly women, went away
looking serious or frightened.
His text was Daniels vision of the
four beasts, one of which, he said,
represented the Babylonian empire,
one the Medo- Persian empire, one
the Grecian empire, ana the other
the Roman empire. He predicted the
formation, by great wars and revo-
lutions, of all the countries of Caesars
original Roman empire into an allied
confederacy of ten kingdoms ruled
by ten sovereigns, as represented by
the ten horns of the wild beast in
the seventh chapter and twenty
fourth verse Of Daniel, and the sub
sequent rise among the ten sover
eigns of an eleventh sovereign, who
will be the little horn as represented
in the beast, and who will first APP
pear in Syria. The allied kingdoms
will be Britain, France, Spain, Italy.
Austria, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Tur-
key and Bulgaria. In the meantime
Germany will have been conquered
by France and will be part of that
kingdom, which will then be ruled
by king. In conquering Germany
France will either be added by Rus
STA or by socialistic revolution in
Germany. She will be led by Bou
La ger, who is man of destiny.
When the ten Kingdoms are formed,
the sovereign represented by the lit
tie horn will gradually increase his
power until he becomes king of the
ten allied nations, and finally the
imperial anti-Christ. He will be a
a representative of the Napoleon dy
nasty, the greatest warrior that ev-
er lived, the craftiest statesman and
the most successful leader of men.
America will be subject to his do
minion. He will not conquer this
country by bringing vast armies
here, but will succeed by means of
his fascinating genius, which will
win him countless adherents, such
as socialists, nihi lists, spirltualists
and Romanists who will eventually
get control of the country.
Mr.. Baxter prophesied that all
these things will come to pass dur
ing the next thirteen years, after
which will come the millennium of
thousand years. The great wars
and revolutions and earthquakes
will begin in year or two, and will
be the most horrible, the most de-
vastating, the world has known. BY
1890 the ten kingdoms will have
been allied. As all countries out
side Caesars original Roman empire
will be separated, at least legisla-
lively, from the ten kingdoms in
side the Roman empire, Ireland and
India and the colonies will be separ-
ated from England legislatively, if
not entirely. The eleventh king
will first attract attention by seven
years. covenant with the Jews, and
in about two and a.half years there
after he will advance from being
merely King of Syria to be head Of
France, and then be the supreme
sovereign of the world. He will be
the anti-Christ during the last three
and a-half years.
With regard to his reasons for
fixing the time for the great crisis,
he said that whatever. differences of
opinion have existed among exposi-
tors as to the mere details of pro-
phetic interpretations, more than a
hundred of them have foreshown in
their books that it will probably
take place between now and 1900.
Having arrived at the threshold of
this crisis, we behold their prophet
ic anticipations signally verified and
confirmed by the startling signs of
the times-political, social and re-
Misunderstanding around this per-
iod.
In view of these predictions, Mr..
Baxter told his hearers that they
will be living in FOOLS paradise if
they do not prepare for approaching
events, by saving their souls, by SO
living that they may be among the
elect. That done, all they will have
to do will be to wait to see if what
he says will not come true.
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